Activating Vacant Spaces

Living Lots NYC is a clearinghouse of information that New Yorkers can use to find, unlock and protect our shared resources. 596 Acres started with vacant lots and remains committed to helping fill these holes.

Reviewing Accountability

Urban Reviewer catalogs over 150 urban renewal plans that NYC adopted to get federal funding for acquiring land, relocating the people living there, demolishing the structures and making way for new public and private development.

Gaining Access to Public Buildings

NYCommons helps New Yorkers impact decisions about public land and buildings in their neighborhoods. It is a collaboration between Common Cause/NY, the Community Development Project at the Urban Justice Center, and 596 Acres.

November 26, 2012 / Comments Off on Lots of Land/Land of Lots / 596 Acres

Friend and collaborator Daniel Eizirik is working on documenting public vacant lots with 596 Acres this winter, in conjunction with the exhibition “On Purpose” at the BRIC Rotunda gallery (33 Clinton Street, Brooklyn Heights). The drawings are created through [...]

It seems that we have really done what needed to be done. Our collective efforts have shone a spotlight on the variety of human suffering on Rockaway peninsula as a result of Sandy. Going forward, 596 Acres and UnLocal [...]

Before you email us, please read these Rockaway Relief Common Questions: 1. What do I do with stuff I want to donate? Please take them to Gowanus Studio Space (166 7th Street, Gowanus, Brooklyn). We are synthesizing up to date lists [...]

596 Acres is expanding to Queens and Manhattan. 596 Acres creates tools to connect New Yorkers to vacant public land. With 596 Acres’ expansion into Queen and Manhattan, nearly four million more New Yorkers will have access to the [...]

June 1, 2012 / Comments Off on Testify for New York City to Fund GreenThumb for the FIRST TIME EVER / 596 Acres

This message is from our friends at New Yorkers For Parks. You can read 596 Acres’ testimony in support of NYC funding GreenThumb here. NY4P leads a RALLY at CITY HALL next Tuesday, June 5 at 10am in the Fight Against [...]